A curious kid asks: Why does it matter if Pluto is a planet or a dwarf planet?
Children march in a parade marking the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, about 100 kilometres east of the Ukraine border, in May 2015.
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A curious kid asks: what do blind people experience in their dreams?
The sky can be so many different things: it can be big, beautiful and blue, or grey, cloudy and rainy. It can also be full of stars, or full of orange and red clouds at sunset or sunrise.
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Humans are constantly changing our languages in terms of sounds, words, meanings, and grammar, so much so that it becomes increasingly difficult to understand our own distant relatives across time and space.
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Squirrels and chipmunks are distant cousins who have grown a little more apart from each other over millions of years.
A natural color image of Pluto taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in 2015.
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Short answer: they don’t. But striking teachers often receive a bit of financial help during a strike from money they themselves have already paid to their unions.
There are many moons in the galaxy, but only ours is called the moon.
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